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Caro Francesco, What you propose sounds great but I think your article works better to find like minded people who share your thoughts (definitely count me in
by jokethrowaway 6y ago
Caro Francesco,
What you propose sounds great but I think your article works better to find like minded people who share your thoughts (definitely count me in on that) than to find some work offers.
Maybe with HN's reach you would find something, but I think a normal contractor's pitch + vetting for interesting jobs would work best.
I would also recommend looking into building your own project
My way of dealing with this problem has been:
- Do contract work and vet the work; worst case scenario, you can drop off with some notice and not much will change. I did some employee time but that was mainly to get benefits (eg. paternity leave) and some fixed money for a period of my life I knew I wouldn't be very productive in
- Raise the price of my services; this tends to filter out the worst jobs, albeit VC funded startup and rich tech companies have plenty of money to waste on chair warmers. Established mid companies without funding doing something you care about and with a remote first culture (pre-COVID and post-COVID) work best.
- Build your own project, add almost-passive revenue streams; outsource the boring bits you don't want to do
- Save money and try to reduce your expenses so that your passive revenue streams need to cover less money (making it easier to survive on passive revenue)
Not a recipe for optimising for wealth, but for freedom.